The church for decades has been a place of worship for Assyrians who fled persecution in the Middle East and also has been a ...

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

Stars were "the heavenly writing"; a sheep's liver was "the tablet of the gods". You have a date palm with two tops? People here are hostile to you. Your gate creaks? You're at risk of attack. It was ...

With a lot of focus on anti-Semitism in the world today, the term has often been mistaken as exclusive to Jewish people.

Did you know that Indigenous Australians have been using fire to care for the land for tens of thousands of years? Evidence ...

BAGHDAD, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Iraq's culture and foreign ministries announced Tuesday the retrieval of antiquities from Switzerland and Japan.

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

The Erbil Civilization Museum, which houses rare artifacts dating back thousands of years, from the Stone Age to the Sumerian, Assyrian, and Islamic periods, stands as a testament to the historical ...

The report by Open Doors ranks the country among the top 50 in the world with the most cases of abuse, violence, targeted attacks and murders. The minority is the “most persecuted” and in ...

High in the mountains of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region lies Amedi, a stunning fortress town that seems frozen in time.